One of America’s greatest sportswriters, Dave Kindred joined the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times in 1965, became Times sports editor in 1969, and went to the Washington bureau in 1972. He was C-J sports editor from 1973 to 1977 and was the National Sportswriter of the Year in 1977. He worked at The Washington Post, The National, The Sporting News, Golf Digest, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His many awards include Best Sports Columnist in America (1984), the Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement from Associated Press Sports Editors, and the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports writing. His books include Basketball, the Dream Game in Kentucky. A native of Atlanta, Illinois, he attended Illinois Wesleyan University and retired to nearby Carlock, where he covers Morton High School girls’ basketball on Facebook.